Upcycling: Paper Egg Project

This is an ongoing project, and in this article, I'll show the finished product.  My apologies that the image doesn't do the paper eggs justice.  I'm not all that great with photography, so I used the scanner instead.

This would be considered an "upcycling" project: taking a recyclable material and using it to make something new, instead of sending it to the recycling center.  There are plenty of other people already involved in "upcycling," but it's still largely unknown to the general public.

Like I said, these eggs are made of paper (grocery store advertisements) and ordinary school glue.  Out of this batch, my favorite one is the one with the antique copper "veins".  These are all small enough to fit in the palm, but they're hollow inside.

I sometimes wear the prototype to these paper eggs.  It's blue and light green, with a crocheted "webbing" attaching it to a crocheted cotton thread chain.

It takes roughly 8 hours to make two paper eggs.  They'd be unpainted though.  It can take another day or so to get the eggs painted and a coat of polycrylic applied to give them a shiny appearance.

I'll go through one of these in stages in another blog post. 

Introducing Crazy Woman's Hobbies Blog

Sounds like a weird title, right?  Calling myself a "crazy woman"?  Well, at least I know I'm crazy.  And what I choose to do with it is create.

Now I realize it's customary to have separate blogs for individual hobbies.  But my problem is that I don't think I'd have enough to post on a regular basis if I stuck with just one hobby.

So here, you'll see posts that pertain to cooking (I'll probably refer to that as "kitchen alchemy") and something called "upcycling".  For my "upcycling" projects, I've worked with plastic shopping bags and grocery store advertisements.  I've also used those slick-feeling advertisements to make paper beads.  I've got other projects I either need to get back to work on, or plan to make in the future.  For instance, I plan to take some empty coffee bags and make wallets.

See?  If I blog about just one thing, you probably wouldn't have enough posts to read.  And I'm one of those types that loves sharing information like this.

Now with my hobbies, I don't consider myself an expert in any of it.  My creations are usually crude-looking.  Even so, the almost abstract quality of what I've made so far interests people out in the real world.

So without further ado, I'll leave you to enjoy the blog as it takes shape.